Landscape/terrain map

[nils@innboks.com]

Would love to have a terrain material (included with vray) that does the same as the mental ray landscape map or dreamscape terrain material. Not only for Max but, oh so desperately, for Maya also.
I know i can use the dreamscape material in max but that involves another plugin and it wouldnt work with RT. In maya there are no good alternatives. (The snow shader is a pain to use especially if u need controls for the slope falloffs.)
I would like to have noise possibilities for the falloffs. Preferrably a map slot to choose my own noise/fractal.

If anyone knows a good alternatives to a terrain shader. Pls let me know.

Best regards
Nils A Brekke

[joconnell]

Might not be what you're after but geocontrol is a fantastic application - very very cheap, has great filtering and noise controls, amazing erosion and lots of options for exporting maps / masks.

[nils@innboks.com]

Thanks for the tip

My problem is that i need it to be procedural cause we move very close to the terrain and also far away. So making masks or using bitmaps wont work unless they are at an insane resolution.

Nils

[joconnell]

You might be better off with something like vue or terragen in that case - terragen 3 looks quite promising for animation, I'm not a massive fan of vue. The majority of places will use bitmaps for their control of placement but then as you say procedurals to drive the detail functions.